Our Second FReeper Book Club: The Debate over the Constitution

A Publius Essay | 20 January 2010 | Publius

[bboop]

Yes, count me in.

[Loud Mime]

And thank you!

Please let me know if you think a liberal could read the book.

[PGalt]

Please let me know if you think a liberal could read the book.

They're likely to burn it. Look what they've done to the Constitution. Witness history.

[shove_it]

I’ll re-up! Thanks for all your work!

[jer33 3]

Count me in, please.

[Sopater]

Please ping me to this bookclub.

[Loud Mime]

That would be a funny remark if there were not so much truth in it....

[Publius]

Your comments reminded me of the conversation with my agent over A Navigational Tool for Atlas Shrugged.

The original title was A Conservative's Guide to Atlas Shrugged. The agent objected to the title, telling me that liberals also read.

"They do?" I asked in mock innocence.

"Watch it!" he said.

[Loud Mime]

That was good for a loud laugh at the Starbucks I’m at, in Northridge. No doubt this place is filled with liberals, so I’ll just say it was a Stephen Wright joke.

Liberals do read articles as long as it tells them who to hate how to claim they are victims.

[PGalt]

:) I certainly appreciate your effort on this topic, Publius. Unread on these topics, I am looking forward to reading about some of the greatest thinkers to ever inhabit the planet.

This deserves a BTTT on many levels.

[Publius]

Well, gosh and shucks. (blush blush)

Thanks.

[WHATNEXT?]

Please add me to your PING list. What an undertaking!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I’m interested.

[Cymbaline]

Sign me up!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Hillsdale College Offering Free Web Seminar: "Reviving the Constitution"

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“What, then, is the Constitution? I will tell you. It is no vague, indefinite, floating, unsubstantial, ideal something, colored according to any man’s fancy, now a weasel, now a whale, and now nothing. . . . The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word therefrom. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.”
—Frederick Douglass, Glasgow, Scotland, March 26, 1860

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When: Saturday, January 30, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm EST
Register (plus links to more information): http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/hillsdale/100130/

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List of Speakers:




• Dr. Larry Arnn: 
President, Hillsdale College
  "The Administrative State and the Duties of Citizens"

• Dr. David Bobb: 
Director and Lecturer in Political Science
  "America’s Foundational Principles"

• Dr. Matthew Spalding: 
Adjunct Fellow
  "The Founders’ Constitution"

• Dr. Paul Moreno: 
Senior Fellow
  "The Constitution and the Civil War"

• Dr. Ronald Pestritto: 
Senior Fellow
  "The Progressives’ Constitution"

[loboinok]

PING

[Loud Mime]

Thanks for the ping!

[hinckley buzzard]

Please add me to the list. Thanks.

[c21sac]

Just got this today, please count me in. Thanks.

[Jay777]

Thanks Lobo